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- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
They spend much more time paying attention to reviews of other people like them and trying to understand and gauge in an unbiased fashion what the real quality is of these... View Details
- 29 Jun 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change
can I do? What are key enterprise risk-management strategies? How Do I Build My Business In This Environment? Building Businesses in Turbulent Times An economic crisis is a charter for business leaders to rewrite View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
and income statement will have no market effect. But to argue that proper costing of stock options would have a significant adverse impact on companies that make extensive use of them is to admit that the... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
companies. The partners were allowed to spend up to $2 million at any one time without getting permission from the corporation. For larger expenditures, they were required to obtain permission from XTV's governing board, which consisted... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
for which they lack formal training, and facing painful uncertainty about what happens next, deserve our admiration and gratitude. But that is not enough. At some point (and none of us know exactly when),... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
related bills that have both costs and benefits are combined. In our first laboratory study, we confirm across a set of four legislative domains that this bundling technique increases support for bills that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
cross-group network effects are neither necessary nor sufficient for an organization to be a MSP. Second, our definition emphasizes the difference between MSPs and alternative forms of intermediation such as "re-sellers," which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
http://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-managerial-economics-9780199782956?cc=us&lang=en&tab=overview 2013 pub Infrastructure for Ore: Benefits and Costs of a Not-So-Original... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
and in sync with the larger interests of the nation— Nancy Koehn Nancy Koehn: As a historian, I would note that this is not the first time that Americans have gone through intense questioning about the... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
work? A: Unfortunately the method is quite difficult to implement—it took us many months to do it properly, and it required mutual fund holdings data that costs tens of thousands of dollars (which the HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 06 Nov 2009
- News
Health Reform Paths Not Taken
health plans would penalize their members for hard-won concessions from employers. Given the torrent of ink and days of air time devoted to both topics, HBS professor Regina Herzlinger offers a refreshing... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
promotional spending (including that directed toward physicians) as a percentage of pharmaceutical sales remains relatively constant over time and thus the growth of DTCA represents a shift in the mix of... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
inequality is costing the global economy $12 trillion annually, with North America accounting for 25 percent of that total followed by China’s 20-plus percent. If diversity and gender equality have so much... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)
management diagnostic, an assessment tool designed to help national malaria control programs and ministries of health assess their managerial challenges in a more systematic way. I am also supporting the... View Details
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract We empirically document factors that influence how local operating managers use discretion to balance the tradeoff between service capacity View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
Co.—a company more than five times its size—in 2007, then moved to acquire the U.S.'s fourth and fifth largest beef producers in 2008. The new JBS Swift slashed costs View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
the seller can back out at any time between the signing and the closing by paying the buyer a "breakup fee," which might compensate the buyer for out-of-pocket expenses. The seller gets the ability... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
Thus, founder Jack Ma and his management team, who own a little over 9 percent of the company, can still retain control of its destiny. (Meanwhile, although Hong Kong stock market authorities are officially... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Sarah Talley’s Key Negotiation Principles
When you have a problem, when there’s something you engage in with Wal-Mart that requires agreement so that it becomes a negotiation, the first advice is to think in partnership terms, really focus on a common goal, of getting costs out,... View Details
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
to an orthodoxy of capital controls in 1944 and then back again by 1994? How have such standards of appropriate behavior been codified and transmitted internationally? Contrary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace